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Not Gibson, but Snow Crash comes to mind
by yeezyseezy 5y ago
Not Gibson, but Snow Crash comes to mind
- SamBam 5y agoHead-desk. That's exactly what I was thinking of.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoThat book is going to turn out to be prophecy. I mean, obviously we're not going to see a physical virus that enters as sensory information -- Wait. ... Are COVID and anti-masking part of the same replicator-complex? ... I see how anti-masking helps COVID. But how would COVID help anti-masking? I don't see how. ... Ok, probably not. -- but that book's concerns seem incredibly prescient. What disturbs me most is how L. Bob Rife, the bad guy, in his one and only monologue, in a TV recording (weird how he never appears in person), seems to... basically be correct. Biomass.
- someguy321 5y agoOn the money. I read Snow Crash about two years ago and the theme of virality increasing as dynamic systems get larger feels all too real right now.